The words highlight what you can find as you walk along the beach at the high tide line and the low tide line seeing what has washed ashore from the sea. Within the beautiful illustrations readers will need to find the words hidden amongst the objects which are sometimes difficult to find because the small text  swirls around some of them and they can blend in with the background. See if you can find the sea urchins, the shark's eggs, ghost crabs and cuttlefish, limpets and barnacles while noticing the big beautiful boulders.

The surprising cut outs reveal more sea creatures and secret words. The drawings are superb and there is a lovely big surprise towards the end.

The author

Johanna Bell lives in Tasmania where she writes fiction and runs a community arts business called StoryProjects. Johanna is the author of The Colour Catchers, illustrated by Laura Stitzel and Hope is the Thing, illustrated by Erica Wagner, and co-author of the award-winning, highly acclaimed bestsellers Too Many Cheeky Dogs, Go Home Cheeky Animals! and Cheeky Dogs: To Lake Nash and Back, illustrated by Dion Beasley.

The illustrator

Emma Long is an accomplished artist, exhibiting regularly in group and solo exhibitions across the Northern Territory. Her passion for creative arts has led them to work as an art educator in secondary schools as well as pursue a Bachelor of Visual Arts, a Certificate in Printmaking and a Graduate Diploma of Education. They are inspired by the fresh, raw beauty of nature and feel most at home in the bush with a brush in hand. Emma lives in Darwin with husband and four children and continues to work as an illustrator and an art educator.

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